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Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories

Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote. Why is this cool? Because Twitter is chock-full of great stuff. Your ideas, thoughts, and experiences mixed together with all of the content from the people you follow: journalism, storytelling, commentary, activism, even comedy –to quote Rob Corddry, “It’s the perfect joke-writing medium. If you need more than 140 characters then it’s not worth it.”

Thanks to the Evernote-Twitter integration, you can easily capture the tweets you like: your own or those showing up in your stream. Plus, as an added bonus, you can now send yourself a quick note right from Twitter –no need to do any of that pesky app switching. Here’s how…

Say ‘Hello’ to @myEN

Evernote now lets you send public Twitter messages, and private Direct Messages, right into your Evernote account for searchable, permanent safekeeping. It’s called myEN, and here’s how it works.

Setting up myEN

Click the link, sign into Evernote, and connect your Evernote and Twitter accounts

If you have a protected Twitter account, then do the following: follow myEN, accept myEN’s follow request, then send myEN a DM. After that, go to step 3 above.

How to use myEN

For Public tweets: Add @myEN to the body of any public tweet

For Direct Messages: Send a DM to myEN to create a new note in Evernote

Tip: Retweet something you like and add @myEN to save it into Evernote.

It usually takes under a minute for a message to show up in your Evernote account, depending on how Twitter is feeling.

SMS notes

Thanks to Twitter’s built-in SMS support, you will now be able to send notes into Evernote from any mobile phone, anywhere in the world. In the US, text message “d myEN [your note]” to 40404 (you will need a Twitter account to do this). Go here to see your country’s Twitter SMS number.

Tweets with Twitpics

A popular way to embed photos into Twitter messages is with Twitpic. If a tweet that you send to Evernote contains a Twitpic URL, a thumbnail of the photo will show up in Evernote along with a link to the original image. Nice.

API developers take note

This integration now adds Twitter to the, ever-growing, list of ways to interact with Evernote, and by extension your apps. Think about it. There are tons of great possibilities. Check out our developer section for more info.

Update: How fast is it?

The speed with which your notes get into Evernote depends on how you send them and how bogged down Twitter happens to be at the time. Direct messages (DM) to myEN will almost always get into your Evernote account in a minute or two, while public @myEN replies can sometimes take 30 minutes. Either way, don’t worry, the tweets will be there by the time you need to remember them again.

4/26 Update: Some people are experiencing problems linking their Evernote and Twitter accounts. We are looking into the issue and hope to have it resolved soon.

Wow Andrew! This is a simple, yet powerful integration you guys put together. Kudos to you and the whole Evernote team. It’s making me think of cool ways our customers could take their Tweets from Twitter->Evernote->Pelotonics.

I’ll have to think of some good use cases. Also, I love the idea of sending an SMS message to Evernote!

How do we just capture a tweet into EN without actually RT’ing? I may not want to RT every tweet that is important to me. Also, does it go into a new note each time or can we have it add onto an existing note?

Awesome! One question: I have 2 twitter accounts, one for my day job as a developer of elearning and one for my cover-of-darkness alter ego as a artist and webcomicer. Can I link both twitterselves to the same EN account?

I’m looking forward to trying this out, and I just synced up my main Twitter account to my Evernote account. Thanks for the added functionality.

Is there a way to send a tweet to a specific notebook, say, just for Twitter stuff? I’m not sure I want to do that, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to specify or otherwise contextualize something coming from Twitter.

This would work much better if Evernote allowed for a feed from Friendfeed or Tumblr and alike to automatically repost tweets to Evernote. Having to type ‘@myEN’ at every tweet seems like a hack, more than anything else.

This is fantastic. But it’d be great to reverse it and send a note TO Twitter. I’d love to be able to tweet a photo note with geodata to Twitter. The tweet would essentially be 2 links: a link to the photo and link to google maps.

Another option to add entries to your evernote account is to use evernote txt app with udefn. udefn lets you define keywords for different apps/widgets (bots). you simply text in the keyword you defined for evernote followed by the note. it will be added to your evernote account. check it out at udefn.com

This might be good and handy; but I am getting concerned that Evernote’s team’s attention has been on the collecting information; but not that much on organizing the collected information. I feel still Evernote 2.x (copy links) or for that matter tiddlywiki pages (default tiddlers or main menu) are stronger in that regard than Evernote 3.0 with so powerful features in other areas.

I’ve actually been doing this for about 6 months now. I created a separate twitter account with my Evernote email address. I then just would tweet to my bogus Evernote “friend” and it would create a note just like a regular email.

I always wanted to share that as a tip but thought Twitter might not like being inundated with bogus evernote accounts. Yeah! I can be legal again!

You may want to put a disclaimer for folks to just think twice about what they want to send via Twitter as I just went to search.twitter.com and searched for @myEn. I realize that for the more savvy users it’s common sense but not everyone seems to be aware that their notes can be seen and searched for in that manner.

@RJ You’re absolutely right. Any tweet sent publicly with the @myEN reply is seen by all followers and on search.twitter.com. If users want to send a private note, they should send a Direct Message to myEN.

This is awesome! I’ve been using evernote for quite a long time and I just started using twitter. The integration is just awesome. Took me a while to finally make the move to twitter but I’m there now.

Dunno if it was answered yet or I just missed it, but is there a way to have the tweets go to specific notebooks just for twitter specific content?

Excellent news! Kudos to the EN team. I do have two feature requests, if you’re making a list: 1) An option to have EverNote import Favorite Tweets would be quite handy for capturing tweets you don’t want to RT. 2) Will you explore adding more twitter-specific image hosting services (especially pic.im) to the list of things EN will recognize?

I really, really want to use the twitter/evernote connection. There are so many tweets that I’d like to save but it doesn’t work for me. When I put @myen nothing happens. When I click on the drop box for my DM myen is not in the list. What’s the problem?

This looks fantastic. I’m always losing great content on twitter because I don’t get around to bookmarking it right away!

I’ve followed @myEN but haven’t had a follow back or a DM. Strange thing though is that I can send @myEN a DM which usually you can only do when someone is also following you. Anyway hope it resolves itself because like I said this looks fantastic!

The twitter link to my EverNote account was working beautifully until today when…for some reason…”myEN” unfollowed me. This means I can no longer get info into EverNote by DM and I am uncertain how to get the bot to follow me again. Please advise.

Ah, that’s what I’ve been looking for so long! Finally a tool that makes my Twitter experience more deeply meaningful. I predict that this little tool has a huge future. A small step for the Evernote team, a giant step for the collective memory and intelligence of organizations and communities!

It also inspires me to become a power user of Evernote and develop smart uses of it for my client system. That is, after going through the first hurdle: finding a simple, 1-click way to add tags to a new note instead having to create it first and only after having to locate a view where there’s the tagline to click on. I hope there’s a simpler way but the Guide .pdf didn’t say anything about it.

Hi
is there any way I can #tag my message and it goes into that notebook ?

Actually the thing is that I use a notebook in evernote -by the name “todo” . So if from twitter I can add todo’s to my evernote -todo notebook – that would be amazing !
wont need ant todo app every !!

Can I hook up my twitter accounts to evernote so that twitter updates are auto-added to evernote? Or the same, but with an rss feed? I’d like to be able to send my blog updates to evernote automatically.

If you are likely to forget to add @myen or need the extra 6 characters it takes up (including the space) why not beat the hassle and feed all tweets automatically into Evernote? – http://flagit.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/automatically-get-tweets-to-evernote-without-using-myen/

You could even feed other sets of tweets like searches using the method in the post.

Just today (3/10/2010) I noticed this feature being advertised in the lower left corner of my Evernote. It says “Brand New Feature…” How is tweeting and capturing that tweet in your Evernote a BRAND NEW feature? You guys have been doing this since mid-2009 (just check the date on the first comment here).

link to @Inside_Insights was working for a while and then stop working for some of my twitter post. Tried to start all over – unfollow and follow again and unlink twiiter but no DM was sent. Unable to link back up again…

I never noticed that you could link twitter and evernote so thought this was really great. But…when I click the link in the DM from @myen it gives me a validation error telling me my twitter name is not valid – any clues???

Heard about it from @KevinRose and immediately sounded like something I needed. Super excited to start using it. I already made a bunch of notes in just minutes after downloading the app for my iMac and my iPhone. kthnxbai! =)

I joined evernote months ago the twitter feature sounded great but I never received a DN back and no my account is not protected so months later I’m back and still can’t figure it out. The whoe evernote idea sounds great on paper but to actually use it you would have to be the person who designed it because its not intuitive at all sorry I won’t recommend to anyone.

I have been trying to upgrade to Evernote Premium, but your site form insists something is missing. I use a middle initial on my credit card name, but no matter where I put it, I get the same error message. What to do? I give up trying, I guess you don’t want my money. (haha) Please help.
Sincerely,
Frederick Y. Martello

I dont like the way this works as it requires too much typing (for us lazy people) Why not use the Twitter API and simply let evernote pick up anything thats been marked as a favourite? Im only guessing that the API would allow this, but it would seem so logical. Maybe someone needs to wtire a trunk App for this.

This is a handy function, but would me MUCH more valuable if url’s were automatically converted to hyperlinks when imported into Evernote. Normally I save a tweet because it contains a link to something I want to read later. It’s a clickable link in twitter, but when I get to evernote I have to copy the link, and either paste it in my browser’s address bar, or in the “source” field in my note and then click it. Too much hassle.

Your video shows URLs showing up as links, but that’s not working for me. This is especially frustrating if I view the note on my mobile (Android) device, as it’s not easy to isolate the unlinked URL to copy and paste.

i believe i followed and unfollowed and refollowed @myEN a million times. still no DM. does it just take a long time to get the DM? (but why? i doubt it’s a manual thing, right?) or do i need a magic wand?

I followed @myEN and it sent me the direct message with the link. However when I go to click on the link, it takes me to a page where it says “This URLs or Page has been blocked” – I’ve tried going to this on all devices, and it isn’t the result of any settings on my computer..Help! Please?

If I want to put someone else’s twitter comment into my notebook i.e. I see something interesting that I want to save, then how do I do that? I can’t press the re-tweet button as you are unable to add in any text (so can’t add @myen) and you can’t access the text in other people’s messages in the timeline. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Twitter has a new functionality that retweets all in one click, so you don’t get the chance to add or alter the tweet text.

In order to add @myEN to your RT, you have to use the older kind of retweet (which gives you a copy of the tweet which you can add to or change). Availability of the old RT will depend on your Twitter client. For your mobile, for example, you have to select an app that has two kinds of RT instead of just Twitter’s new RT.

I don't quite know what to make of it yet. @Biz added an adnuddem to it saying more changes are coming that will make things better, maybe this is just the first of it. Maybe they're adding threaded @replies or something. I don't know. I can't quite get my head around what the fuss is yet – but I'm sure the fuss is justified I'm just not quite understanding how I'm affected yet.

I LOVE Evernote so much! I love how it keeps getting better and better and better with time. Here’s how I use it every day (note that this post has been SHARED over 1,200 times; people sure do love the green elephant, don’t they!): http://next.inman.com/2011/09/6-things-you-should-be-using-evernote-for-every-single-day/

Hi, I’m wondering if there is a possibility to auto safe the tweets i send out with my RSS-Feed. It is nog possible to add @myEN to those tweets because they’re sent automatically so i hope anybody can help me with this situation. please respond..

Twitter is really a P.I.T.A. about doing anything to provide additional support for their customer base. It’s “customer service” seems to go out of its was to be as obstructive and UN-helpful as possible. My account has been suspended for months and no matter how many times I submit their silly forms, e-mails or how many times they write back, no one in whatever nether world on the Matrix they reside in seems to communicate on the same bandwith because no one knows what the other has done–or who has done anything at all, or who they are–and my account is still suspended. Is there another Twitter, perhaps, in an alter dimension we aren’t aware of? I’ve heard of these things, but I thought they only happened to Bosons, and I’m not even in the Navy. (Arghhhhh!)